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Horace Charles Stoneham (April 27, 1903 — January 7, 1990) was an American Major League Baseball executive and the owner of the New York/San Francisco Giants from 1936 to 1976. Inheriting the Giants, one of the flagship franchises of the National League, from his father, Charles, in , he oversaw four pennant-winning teams in his first two decades as owner. Then, in , he moved the Giants from New York City to San Francisco, California, one of two National League owners to bring Major League Baseball to the lucrative West Coast territory. Although the Giants won only one pennant () and one division title () in their first 15 years after moving to the Bay Area, they were a consistent contender that featured some of the era's biggest stars. But, during the mid-1970s, they declined in on-field success and suffered significant attendance losses, forcing Stoneham to sell the team in . Born in Newark, New Jersey, Stoneham was educated at the Hun School of Princeton and the Trinity-Pawling School. He briefly attended Fordham University, but soon dropped out to work in a copper mine in California and begin, at his father's insistence, his apprenticeship as a baseball executive and future owner.〔(Obituary, ''The New York Times,'' 1990-1-9 )〕 He worked on the Giants' grounds crew and in the ticket office and front office. When, at age 32, he succeeded to the team presidency on his father's death in January 1936, Stoneham became the youngest club owner in National League history.〔 ==Hands-on owner== His tenure witnessed three separate pennant-contending and -winning eras: the team that he inherited, the 1936–38 Giants of Bill Terry, Carl Hubbell and Mel Ott; the 1949–55 teams of manager Leo Durocher, including Monte Irvin, Sal Maglie, Bobby Thomson and Willie Mays; and the star-studded Giants of 1959–71. During Stoneham's 41 years as owner, the Giants won National League pennants in 1936, 1937, 1951, 1954 and 1962, a division title in 1971, and a World Series title in 1954. Stoneham employed at least two general managers during those four decades: Terry (1938–42), who doubled as the Giants' field manager through 1941, and Chub Feeney (1946–69), Stoneham's nephew, who became president of the National League (1970–86) after his December 1969 resignation. But Stoneham was known as a hands-on owner who was personally involved in player trades and transactions.〔Durocher, Leo, with Linn, Ed, ''Nice Guys Finish Last.'' New York: Simon and Schuster, 1975, pp. 235–239〕 With the post-World War II Giants falling into in the league's second division, Stoneham boldly moved to replace the popular Ott as his manager with the hyper-competitive, abrasive Durocher on July 16, 1948. Giant fans reviled Durocher as the pilot of the arch-rival Brooklyn Dodgers,〔 but he quickly produced an exciting, hard-playing team that—within 2½ years, in 1951—won one of the most thrilling pennant races in history, capped by Thomson's come-from-behind, three-run walk-off home run in the final inning of the deciding game of the postseason playoff with the Dodgers. Durocher and Mays' 1954 Giants also took the NL flag, and won Stoneham's only World Series title with a four-game sweep over the Cleveland Indians. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Horace Stoneham」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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